WDSU News has learned one of the 10 victims killed in a Texas school shooting was a Louisiana native.CNN reported Cynthia Tisdale was a substitute teacher at Santa Fe High School. According to her Facebook page, Tisdale was born in Thibodaux and graduated from Broadmoor High School in Baton Rouge. According to the Associated Press Tisdale's niece, Leia Olinde, said the family was notified of her death Friday night.She told the AP that Tisdale, who was in her 60s, was like a mother to her and helped her shop for wedding dresses last year.Olinde said Tisdale was married to her husband for close to 40 years and had three children and eight grandchildren. She said she "never met a woman who loved her family so much."Olinde's fiance, Eric Sanders said "words don't explain her lust for life and the joy she got from helping people."Tisdale's brother-in-law, John Tisdale, said in a Facebook post that Cynthia's husband, William Recie Tisdale, is "in bad health with a terminal lung disease."

BATON ROUGE, La. —

WDSU News has learned one of the 10 victims killed in a Texas school shooting was a Louisiana native.

CNN reported Cynthia Tisdale was a substitute teacher at Santa Fe High School. According to her Facebook page, Tisdale was born in Thibodaux and graduated from Broadmoor High School in Baton Rouge.

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According to the Associated Press Tisdale's niece, Leia Olinde, said the family was notified of her death Friday night.

She told the AP that Tisdale, who was in her 60s, was like a mother to her and helped her shop for wedding dresses last year.

Olinde said Tisdale was married to her husband for close to 40 years and had three children and eight grandchildren. She said she "never met a woman who loved her family so much."

Olinde's fiance, Eric Sanders said "words don't explain her lust for life and the joy she got from helping people."

Tisdale's brother-in-law, John Tisdale, said in a Facebook post that Cynthia's husband, William Recie Tisdale, is "in bad health with a terminal lung disease."